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Secondary Traumatic Stress Identification, Mitigation and Improving Work Satisfaction for Health Center Staff During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Webinar hosted by NCHPH. Recording slides and handouts available. More Details...

HITEQ Highlights: Hear from your Peers: Using the EHR for Routine HIV Screening (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The HITEQ Center, in collaboration with BC3 Technologies, LLC, hosted this webinar that explored key concepts and best practices in utilizing an electronic health record in routine HIV Screening. This webinar sought to motivate and educate the clinical team on how the electronic health record can be used as a tool in the workflow of a primary practice. Aspects of clinical decision support, reminders, and alerts were covered with an emphasis on best practices, challenges, solutions, and lessons learned. More Details...

Financial and Workforce Characteristics of High-Performing Health Centers (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This infographic illustrates key findings from the STAR² Center and Capital Link’s study, which examines the financial and workforce characteristics of high-performing health centers across the country. More Details...

PCA Enabling Services Virtual Summit Podcast Series (2020). Resource Type: Other. Description: The first-ever PCA Enabling Services Virtual Summit and podcast series is co-organized and hosted by the Health Center Association of Nebraska (HCAN) in partnership with Health Outreach Partners (HOP). The seven podcast episodes cover a variety of Enabling Services topics, with a focus towards Primary Care Associations. More Details...

Gender Diversity and Affirmation for Children and Adolescents (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar covers behavioral health considerations for gender diverse youth, pubertal blockade as part of a gender affirmation strategy, and a holistic care-team approach to working with gender diverse young people. More Details...

Developing a Business Plan and Financial Forecast for a Health Center Capital Project (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar is designed to assist health centers planning new or expanded facilities in developing a detailed business plan for their capital project. More Details...

School Mental Health Planning for the 2020-21 School Year During COVID-19 (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: This webinar was intended to help school, district, and state education and behavioral health leaders plan for the mental health needs of the entire school community (including students, school staff, and families) and implement multi-tiered mental health promotion, prevention and intervention supports and services in the 2020-21 school year. More Details...

Improving Behavioral Health Screening & Access to Treatment for Veterans in Community Care (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: This toolkit describes a partnership between the Iowa Primary Care Association (Iowa PCA), Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa (CHC/SEIA), and the VA Office of Rural Health (ORH) Veterans Rural Health Resource Center-Iowa City (VRHRC-IC). These partners came together with the goal of establishing mechanisms to ensure veterans seeking care at all CHC/SEIA locations could be systematically identified, screened for behavioral health issues, and engaged in healthcare guided by their choice to remain in the community or engage in a VA care setting. More Details...

Integrating Oral Health into Prenatal and Pediatric Care — Promising Practice (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This promising practice shares how Albany Area Primary Health Care in Georgia implemented a medical and dental integration program in their OBGYN and pediatric clinic. More Details...

Project Highlight: Hill Country Health and Wellness Community Clinic (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This summary describes the Hill Country Health and Wellness Community Clinic (Hill Country) expansion efforts in Redding, CA, highlighting the planning, financing, and community impact of an estimated $24 million health center capital project More Details...

Project Highlight: Care Resource Community Health Centers (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This summary describes Care Resource Community Health Center\'s capital expansion efforts in Miami, FL, highlighting the planning, financing, and community impact of an estimated $34 million health center capital project. More Details...

Medical-Legal Partnership Guide for Agricultural Worker-Serving Organizations (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: FJ’s Medical-Legal Partnership Guide for Agricultural Worker Serving Organizations shares strategies and resources to develop or strengthen medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) in agricultural worker communities. It highlights successful agricultural worker MLPs and resources for health centers and other agricultural worker-serving organizations. More Details...

Turnover Tool Webinar Series (2020). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: Is your health center experiencing high turnover? Are you trying to make the case for stronger workforce retention efforts within your organization? Are you struggling to figure out what is contributing to turnover at your organization? If you answered yes to one or all of these questions, then you will want to join ACU’s webinar series focusing on health center workforce turnover.  More Details...

Tip Sheet: 3 Ways to Help Patients with Evictions and Foreclosures during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020). Resource Type: Other. Description: This is a tip sheet that outlines 3 ways health care providers and staff can work with legal aid attorneys to help patients facing possible evictions and foreclosures while also working to strengthen long-term housing protections. More Details...

The Role of CHWs in Addressing Hypertension (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Community Health Workers (CHWs) are uniquely qualified to support individuals with hypertension. CHW interventions are known to improve health outcomes among individuals diagnosed with hypertension and support at-risk individuals to prevent the development of the condition. The purpose of this guide is to assist health centers and partners in identifying the roles of CHWs in addressing hypertension. More Details...

The Role of CHWs in Addressing Diabetes (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: Community Health Worker (CHW) interventions have demonstrated success in improving health outcomes among individuals diagnosed with diabetes. Additionally, CHWs support at-risk individuals to prevent the development of the condition. The purpose of this guide is to assist health centers and partners in identifying the roles of CHWs in addressing diabetes. More Details...

STAR² Center Talks Workforce Success (2020). Resource Type: Podcast Series. Description: In today’s rapidly changing workplace environment, health centers need to be at the forefront of developing solutions that meet the ever evolving needs of their workforce. ACU’s STAR² Center Podcast Series brings you engaging and informative chats with health center leaders and experts about the different core components that make up a robust health center workforce as it is the fuel for your organizational mission. More Details...

Manager Training Toolkit (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The purpose of the Manager Training Toolkit is to provide a training and development resource for managers at health centers to equip them with skills and tools to lead their teams, increase engagement and reduce turnover. More Details...

Turnover Calculator Tool (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: Health centers can access this tool on a rolling basis, completing their turnover information from the year prior. Once adequate information has been collected, ACU will be able to aggregate the data on a state, regional and national basis, which can be shared to assist health centers in benchmarking their own data. By completing the tool, health centers will also be able to calculate the total cost of turnover at their organization as well as receive recommendations for mitigating turnover. More Details...

Health Information Technology support for HIV Screening and Prevention Services: Environmental scan for Ending the HIV Epidemic (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: In the 2019-2020 contract year, as part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative HITEQ conducted an environmental scan to determine the role of EHRs and health IT in health center capacity and ability to expand HIV screening and prevention. HITEQ reviewed existing data and existing literature, and conducted 15 interviews with health centers and health center partners. The results are structured as a SWOT analysis, outlining strengths and weaknesses internal to health center health IT systems as well as opportunities and threats, factors that are external to health centers. More Details...